The death-bound-subject : Richard Wright's archaeology of death /
JanMohamed, Abdul R.,1945-
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-322) and index.
Introduction : the culture of social-death -- Uncle Tom's children : dialectics of death -- Native son : symbolic-death -- Black boy : negation of death-bound-subjectivity -- The outsider : patricidal desires -- Savage holiday : matricide and infanticide -- The long dream : death and the paternal function -- Renegotiating the death contract.
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Literature and society
African Americans in literature.
Violence in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Death in literature.